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Friends and family came together Monday night to grieve the drive-by shooting death of an innocent 10-year-old girl from Kansas City, Kan. The community is now searching for answers in who killed fifth grader Machole Stewart. With the help of a local radio station, her loved ones are asking people to come forward with information about the gunman. Radio DJs with Hot 103 Jamz hit the airwaves Monday for a 12-hour Call for Justice. They fielded more than two dozen calls and turned over tips to police. “I have a six-year-old daughter myself,” said Chris “Playmaker” Stimpson, an on-air personality with Hot 103 Jamz. “So that’s what I think about. I not only think about their kids, I think about my kids and what would I feel if I was going through this?” The feeling of loss is unbearable, said Machole’s aunt, Vonda Wilson. “Just to aimlessly shoot without any regard for anybody’s life, that’s senseless,” Wilson said. “Only cowards do that. It’s very tough, it’s very emotional.” Emotions were still running high as friends and family gathered at Forest Grove Baptist Church during the Call for Justice, as they grieved and questioned what happened. “It’s not a time to be angry right now,” said Tammy Dowell, a close friend of the Machole’s mother. “This is a time to mourn. And I just pray that they’re able to find these people and do what they need to do because it’s just awful. Why do people do this? I don’t understand.” Machole is the second little girl from the metro to die in a drive-by shooting in less than two weeks. Angel Hooper, just six years old, died nine days earlier in a different drive-by shooting outside a South Kansas City convenience shop. Alvin Brooks of AdHoc Group Against Crime said both incidents are senseless acts of violence against children the community must come together to stop. “You’ve got grieving communities and grieving families and we all ought to be concerned,” Brooks said. “Regardless of where we live, regardless of our race or ethnicity or status in life, we ought to be concerned when these kinds of things happen.” AdHoc is offering a $2,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest. Tuesday night a vigil is planned at 6:00 p.m. at Forest Grove Baptist Church, North Ninth St and Oakland Ave., in Kansas City, Kan. http://fox4kc.com Oct. 28, 2014 by Katie Banks